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TQM and HRM

Marvin, 2000). Underlying this definition is the implication and philosophy that focuses on employee commitment and motivation, me...

Economic Philosophies of John Kenneth Galbraith

did the so-called "technostructure" - the idea that technology can have an impact on the economy (Landry, 1998). Furthermo...

Task Management and Quality

this may mean excellent products, excellent service, excellent work practices, such as good motivation and reward schemes, for som...

Memorandum on Widget Manufacturing Issues

must specialize in producing those goods in which they have a comparative advantage. They maximize their combined output and allo...

Freedom of Action for Employees and Labor Unions

right to refuse or terminate employment of an individual on the basis of union membership because this would be counted as unfair ...

Financial Comparative Analysis of HCA Inc. and Tenet Healthcare Corp.

birth though to death with general and acute facilities as well as specialised facilities such as cardiology, oncology, orthopaedi...

Early Industrialization and the Theories of Goldin and Sokoloff

that the closer a firm was to a city, the smaller the opportunity for women and children (Goldin and Sokoloff, 1982). Still, when ...

Antebellum Industrialization and Tariffs

25 cent per yard minimum valuation (Irwin and Temin, 2000). On the other hand, the Walker tariff of 1846 eliminated the minimum va...

Antidumping Problems and U.S. Steel Tariff Resolution Options

than apparent is the fact that South Korea will have imposed tariffs but Mexico and Canada will not. Such favoritism does not bod...

Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx on the Division of Labor

all of these woes. Marx and Durkheim have always been concerned, in different ways, with the issue of social inequality. Marx...

Reviewing an Article on Managing Across Cultures

the author says little and claims that there is no direct literature to report. Of course, this is not unusual because sometimes s...

Globalization and US Labor Unions

(Trumka, 1996). Back in 1996, Trumka made the announcement that the fight for unions would not just be an American worker ...

The Knowledge Curve in the context of Change Management

information to bring value to the company, to clients and to the general public (Havens and Knapp, 1999). Also of issue in determi...

The United States of the 1920s

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...

Project Management and Team Effects

many times, made up of people from different departments and different disciplines, is far from being a simple task (Kezsbom, 1994...

Sweatshops, Compliance Code, and Nike

Because the main goal of Nike is to "enhance peoples lives through sports and fitness," the companys Code of Conduct states that e...

Learning Organizations' Functions of Management

The learning organization also must approach planning as a learning exercise, assessing its planning of the past and comparing act...

Worker Availability Assurance

workers must wear steel-toed shoes, they are not required to own them. Workers are not guaranteed any specific number of hours an...

Kentucky Fried Chicken and Quality Management

from the drive-through window (DTW) operation. In the DTW, it seemed as though service was hugely slow. Adding to that, t...

Labor Unions and Airline Mechanics' Involvement Implications

complained through its national director that President Bush not only was "taking sides," but that he was taking the side of the a...

Value of Leadership

century, and now in the early twenty-first, there is a tendency to treat human resources as more valuable than ever before. Each a...

Evolution of Management from the 1950s through the 1990s

has heightened both production and attention to human capital and likely, these trends will continue through the twenty-first cent...

Operations Management and IT, TQM, and JIT Effects

* Manufacturing flexibility is essential (Green and Inman, 2000). * Customers define quality (Green and Inman, 2000). * Team effor...

Quality Costs

so as to enable production and service at the most economical levels which allow full customer satisfaction" (Feigenbaum, 1999). ...

U.S. Reconstruction and Labor Arrangements

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

Approaches to Conflict Management

mind. Your opponent might change your mind. More important, if your opponent had used Rogerian persuasion on you to enlist your ...

Labor Theories of Adam Smith and Karl Marx Theory

increased productivity stimulates market growth, if the market is such that it can absorb the growth. The cumulative effect of the...

Development of Global Human Resources

are also accustomed to doing business with U.S. firms and many travel regularly to the United States. Most speak English. In add...

Bahamas Bacardi Company and the Development of Global Human Resources

the Bahamas possesses a large, relatively low-cost labor pool and enjoys preferential access to the U.S. market through the Caribb...

Skills for Effective Management

extended family is coming for dinner, the host and hostess will be involved in all these steps. The point is that most people are ...